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Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by bashr8: 2:03am On Jan 20, 2012
The Nigerian Army spokesperson, Col. Mohammed Yerima has broken his silence over the heavy presence of military men on Lagos streets, saying it was requested and actively sponsored by the Lagos state government.

Although, the minister of Defence, Bello Haliru Mohammed, told newsmen on Tuesday that the military personnel were deployed by Federal Government to Lagos to safeguard lives and property in view of recently protests and national strike.

Yerima stated this in a four paragraph statement he read to journalists at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. He noted that the soldiers were drawn from the same Operation MESSA, a security arrangement of Lagos State government made up of police and military personnel.

The statement reads: “The attention of the Defence Headquarters has been drawn to the unsubstantiated claims by a section of the public alleging that the Federal Government ordered the deployment of troops in Lagos to halt the protest against the fuel subsidy removal.

“While the Defence Headquarters do not wish to join issues with any individual or groups regarding the matter, we wish to state categorically, in the interest of the larger society, that there is no element of truth in those claims.

“The soldiers seen on the streets of Lagos are still the same men of the special task force code named Operation MESSA set up and sponsored by the Lagos State government long before the fuel subsidy protests, for the purpose of supporting the civil police in protecting lives and property as is the case in many parts of the country.

“The men of the task force who are currently in Lagos have been there and were not brought from outside Lagos. They are members of the Lagos State Government sponsored Operation MESA and the demand for their withdrawal is therefore uncalled for”, he concluded.

But in a swift reaction, the Honourable Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba, said the claim by the Nigerian Army was a blatant lie and there was no iota of truth.

He enjoined Nigerian Army to show the entire populace the proof that the Lagos State Government has a hand in the mass deployment of soldiers.

Ibirogba said the state government has nothing to gain in victimising its citizens, because they have constitutional right to protest without destruction of lives and properties, which was not obtainable during the 6-day industrial action in the state.


http://saharareporters.com/article/janus-faced-fashola-exposed-nigerian-army-regarding-deployment-soldiers-lagos
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by NegroNtns(m): 2:06am On Jan 20, 2012
. . . .lol, squad commando bashr and his "save Yoruba" campaign!

Now you typed it up neatly with names and titles to make it sound legitimate. hmmm. . . you must think Yorubas are stupid. Go sell that to your ibo Igbos to bite into.

We have been running politics and propaganda while pygmies in East were still clad in leaves.
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by jmaine: 2:07am On Jan 20, 2012
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by NegroNtns(m): 2:08am On Jan 20, 2012
oh, by the way. . . who ordered the deployment of soldiers in other states in North?  Fashola did that too?    grin cheesy cheesy

Go and call Beaf to come and coach you on how to run propaganda.  You have a long way to go boy!
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by BlackPikiN(m): 2:09am On Jan 20, 2012
Negro_Ntns:

. . . .lol, squad commando bashr and his "save Yoruba" campaign!  

Now you typed it up neatly with names and titles to make it sound legitimate.  hmmm. . . you must think Yorubas are silly.  Go sell that to your ibo Igbos to bite into.  

We have been running politics and propaganda while pygmies in East were still clad in leaves.



What has the story got to do with the Igbo people.
Una wan die for Igbo matter.
8years and still counting. Igbo this, Igbo that!
Are you all insane?
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by BlackPikiN(m): 2:10am On Jan 20, 2012
Negro_Ntns:

oh, by the way. . . who ordered the deployment of soldiers in other states in North?  Fashola did that too?    grin cheesy cheesy

Go and call Beaf to come and coach you on how to run propaganda.  You have a long way to go boy!

http://saharareporters.com/article/janus-faced-fashola-exposed-nigerian-army-regarding-deployment-soldiers-lagos
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by NegroNtns(m): 2:13am On Jan 20, 2012
gej machineries of propaganda! who deployed the army on the streets of northern states?

Can someone please answer that?
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Mogidi: 2:15am On Jan 20, 2012
@Negro_Ntns

You must be a tard. All you had to do was google this story to see if it was made up.

I bet you couldn't do it because it would require having a brain.
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by NegroNtns(m): 2:21am On Jan 20, 2012
Modigi or whatever da fvck your name is. . . .you must be dunce!

google is not GODgle. ok? Google does not think for me! Army spokesperson said Fashola requested the army, his boss said it was deployed by Gej. In the other states - Kwara, Oyo, Kano, kaduna. . . .what does this Army spokesperson has to say to those? Did the individual governors requested deployment or was Fashola the new Cic? When you finish reasoning that out let me know.
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Mogidi: 2:26am On Jan 20, 2012
Negro_Ntns:

Modigi or whatever da fvck your name is. . . .you must be dunce!

google is not GODgle.  ok?  Google does not think for me! 

You're better off letting Google think for you in your present state of mind. Don't be too quick to reply to every post, sometimes sit and ponder before hitting the keyboard. Am getting worried for you bro.

                                             All the best.Cheers!!!
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by koruji(m): 2:35am On Jan 20, 2012
The article below is just another face-saving statement by GEJ & his goons.

First, note that nowhere does it say that Fashola requested the soldiers to be deployed as they were after the NLC called off the strike. Certainly they were not deployed like this before and during the subsidy protests.

Second, all the article said is that the soldiers were already part of ongoing operations in Lagos - yet they were in Lagos also during the original protests and were not seen in public. This of course, is a blatant lie one of many the GEJ admin has being telling lately. They are merely using this as cover - if anything it makes their withdrawal a little less embarrasing.

Lastly, I hope the synchophants know when their master is throwing a real bone for them to chase or just head-faking everybody else. This is one of the latter, but like bone-haggling dogs they had to go after the head-fake of nothingness.



By Opeyemi Adesina

The Nigerian Army spokesperson, Col. Mohammed Yerima has broken his silence over the heavy presence of military men on Lagos streets, saying it was requested and actively sponsored by the Lagos state government.

Although, the minister of Defence, Bello Haliru Mohammed, told newsmen on Tuesday that the military personnel were deployed by Federal Government to Lagos to safeguard lives and property in view of recently protests and national strike.

Yerima stated this in a four paragraph statement he read to journalists at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. He noted that the soldiers were drawn from the same Operation MESSA, a security arrangement of Lagos State government made up of police and military personnel.

The statement reads: “The attention of the Defence Headquarters has been drawn to the unsubstantiated claims by a section of the public alleging that the Federal Government ordered the deployment of troops in Lagos to halt the protest against the fuel subsidy removal.

“While the Defence Headquarters do not wish to join issues with any individual or groups regarding the matter, we wish to state categorically, in the interest of the larger society, that there is no element of truth in those claims.






“The soldiers seen on the streets of Lagos are still the same men of the special task force code named Operation MESSA set up and sponsored by the Lagos State government long before the fuel subsidy protests, for the purpose of supporting the civil police in protecting lives and property as is the case in many parts of the country.

“The men of the task force who are currently in Lagos have been there and were not brought from outside Lagos. They are members of the Lagos State Government sponsored Operation MESA and the demand for their withdrawal is therefore uncalled for”, he concluded.

But in a swift reaction, the Honourable Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba, said the claim by the Nigerian Army was a blatant lie and there was no iota of truth.

He enjoined Nigerian Army to show the entire populace the proof that the Lagos State Government has a hand in the mass deployment of soldiers.

Ibirogba said the state government has nothing to gain in victimising its citizens, because they have constitutional right to protest without destruction of lives and properties, which was not obtainable during the 6-day industrial action in the state.
 
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by NegroNtns(m): 2:38am On Jan 20, 2012
You're better off letting Google think for you in your present state of mind. Don't be too quick to reply to every post, sometimes sit and ponder before hitting the keyboard. Am getting worried for you bro

if a post demands a fast response thats exactly what I will do. . .  a quick response!  If you want to think and mull over it for few hours then thats your business. . . what the heck do I care?  

If google think for me then I will turn out like you, easily sold on google story!!   an unacceptable option!
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Rad1cal: 2:42am On Jan 20, 2012
I knew [size=16pt]Foul[/size][size=16pt]shior[/size]la wasn't clean cool

Rad1cal:

The hypocrisy of Fashola, If he couldn't manage a peaceful protest of a much smaller group in Lekki without using the combined force of the police and ACN thugs

Why should he complain when soldiers are deployed to put the fear of God into some dumb protesters

[size=16pt]Fashola can play politics with this, but we are wiser to the ploy that he is indirectly profiting from this, due to security reports that mentioned plots to confront him squarely with the Lekki toll gate and the crazy LASU hike in school fees[/size]

Nice speech from Fashola though

Other than that, he can tell that to the rats because the military would spend a few more days on those sites

GEJ is the boss and the presence of the Army shows that  cool
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Akanbiedu(m): 2:48am On Jan 20, 2012
Negro_Ntns:

. . . .lol, squad commando bashr and his "save Yoruba" campaign!

Now you typed it up neatly with names and titles to make it sound legitimate. hmmm. . . you must think Yorubas are silly. Go sell that to your ibo Igbos to bite into.

We have been running politics and propaganda while pygmies in East were still clad in leaves.

This got me laughing. Damn right
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by bashr8: 2:51am On Jan 20, 2012
Masters of denial, I dey laugh oo any fashola have always foolef lagosians so am not suprised
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by EkoIle1: 3:02am On Jan 20, 2012
I wonder why such story attributed to the federal government exists on SR of all places.


Somebody is playing a cruel joke on these AGIPA clowns.

Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Beaf: 5:33am On Jan 20, 2012
I says! Dis shiits is a very biiiiiigggg shiits!!

Aluta!

Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by netotse(m): 8:49am On Jan 20, 2012
lol. . .the spokesperson dude is trying to be clever by half. . .

In simple english he's saying that the men that the army gave to the lagos state govt are the same men the army directed to 'enforce' discipline in lagos, so there was no net deployment of soldiers to lagos. There was simply a redeployment grin
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Knight1(m): 9:15am On Jan 20, 2012
Assuming Fashola requested them sef, shey he has told them to go, why are they not heeding that call too?
Abi go nikan won gbo ni? won gbo come? grin
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Nobody: 9:20am On Jan 20, 2012
another show of shame from the gej administration - now trying to pass the buck on their incompetence and dictatorship to others

no one is fooled, no even the gej muppets

the news is full of statements by the fg - we will not withdraw troops from lagos
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Mavor: 9:44am On Jan 20, 2012
One of the problems in this country is that the army is full of abokis who didnt finish high school or go to school sef. Stupid muthafu<ker. The three rubbish that is fu<king up this country, Military, Police & PDP.
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by dagboss(m): 9:52am On Jan 20, 2012
I think Governor Fashola is not as cheap as to call for deployment of soldiers to come and shoot down peaceful protesters and at the same time cry out loud to the whole world against the exercise. We all know operation MESA has been in operation in Lagos for some time now. They are seen patrolling in pick-ups only, but the soldiers that are still occupying some parts of Lagos have different types of SMG mounted APCs. This type of Uche Chukwumerije propaganda will not work. They should stop calling dog monkey for us to save their faces.
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by ochukoccna: 9:56am On Jan 20, 2012
Fash asked 4 kakhi boys yet FG has decreed kakhi boys will not leave Lagos yet.
Its just not adding up
Ebele LIE BETTER!
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by ochukoccna: 10:04am On Jan 20, 2012
ACN cried out Ebele's scheme to declare a state of emergency&suddenly soldiers pop up all over Lasgidi.
We no B mumu O!
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by DAY12(m): 10:14am On Jan 20, 2012
If you have noticed this notice you will have noticed that this notice is not worth noticing!

General Gej, biko nu, remove ya boiz off lasgidi. . .[img]http://www.sympato.ch/smileys/Fuck2.gif[/img]
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by kelao: 10:21am On Jan 20, 2012
What the army spokesman is saying is this-----OP MESSA soldiers have been in the streets of lagos working with the police to protect live and properties for a long time and they are still the same soldiers deployed to ojota.Simple
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by gendebs(m): 10:25am On Jan 20, 2012
who is foolim who?
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by gendebs(m): 10:33am On Jan 20, 2012
gendebs:

who is foolim who?
sorry, fooling who?
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by gendebs(m): 10:36am On Jan 20, 2012
gendebs:

who is foolim who?
sorry, fooling who?
Mavor:

One of the problems in this country is that the army is full of abokis who didnt finish high school or go to school sef. silly muthafu<ker. The three rubbish that is fu<king up this country, Military, Police & PDP.
bros, PHCN nko
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by Goddex: 10:45am On Jan 20, 2012
Fashola is secretly supporting an uprising against the Fed Govt.
No sane govt would stay in Abuja only to be rubbished by a state
governor whose party is bent on playing politics with everything
including the all important PIB.

Soldiers should stay, afterall they are not causing any harm.
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by werepeLeri: 10:48am On Jan 20, 2012
Why are you people saying the story is untrue? after all it came from Sahara Reporters. "Janus-Faced Fashola Exposed By The Nigerian Army Regarding Deployment Of Soldiers In Lagos"
Re: Army Deployment In Lagos Was Requested By Lagos State Govt - Army Spokesman by babaowo: 10:59am On Jan 20, 2012
oro kabiti!!!

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